Contemporary Art Damien Hirst’s No Love Lost and the Blue Skull Paintings in 2010

Damien Hirst

First Edition

Hirst, Damien Damien Hirst: No Love Lost, 2010, documents Hirst’s return to painting through the Blue Skull and flower works exhibited at the Wallace Collection, supporting research into contemporary British art, Young British Artists, mortality imagery, and exhibition culture after the 1990s YBA breakthrough. Hirst first gained public attention through the 1988 exhibition Freeze and won the Turner Prize in 1995.

Hirst, Damien. Damien Hirst: No Love Lost. London: Other Criteria, 2010. Signed. First edition. 1 volume. 66 leaves. 30 color reproductions of Hirst’s paintings and 3 gatefolds. Original color printed boards. Quarto. Published after Hirst’s No Love Lost: Blue Paintings exhibition at the Wallace Collection, London, which opened in October 2009 and presented twenty-five new paintings in dialogue with the museum’s historic interiors. The volume includes an interview between Hirst and British painter John Hoyland.

The catalogue places Hirst’s skull, flower, and death imagery within a painterly rather than installation-based format, extending central themes of his career into works made for a historically charged museum setting. The Wallace Collection exhibition was discussed at the time as a visible shift toward solitary painting after Hirst’s large-scale serial production. Condition not stated in the supplied description. Signed first edition documenting a focused painting exhibition by a leading figure of contemporary British art.

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Price: $480.00